THE INDEPENDENT NEWS BACK BAY – Virginia Beach Farm Bureau members last month elected six officers to two-year terms of service on the board.
Category: Agriculture
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE — City officials are working to offset interest rates to encourage participation in the Agricultural Reserve Program, which pays farmers
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO — Farmer John Cromwell has peanuts alongside the pumpkins available at the family farm stand, Cromwell’s Produce on New Bridge Road.
BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE PUNGO — Some consumers may associate local produce with the sweet corn and tomatoes of summer, but the growing season keeps
BY AMY POULTER COURTHOUSE – Virginia Beach resident Leslie Jones is one of two candidates running for two open seats on the Virginia Dare
BY AMY POULTER COURTHOUSE — This year, the Virginia Dare Soil and Water Conservation District is electing two nonpartisan board members, and one of
BY JANE BLOODWORTH ROWE PUNGO — Fall is harvest season for Virginia Beach grain farmers, and this summer’s unusual weather has resulted in mixed results
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE LANDSTOWN — For years, musicians from Hampton Roads, North Carolina and beyond have gathered at the Virginia Beach Farmers Market to play and
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE NORTH LANDING — Along North Landing Road, near a large test plot tended for the Virginia Cooperative Extension by Curtis Wolfarth, dozens of
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS BACK BAY — Al Henley, 69, whose family has been here since the late 1600s, comes from generations of people who